Lines in NYC for First Gen iPhone

Leander Kahney ()

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The lines are 30-people deep for an iPhone in NYC, Gizmodo reports. And that’s for the current generation iPhone — not version 2.0 excepted in a month.

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Leander Kahney

is the editor and publisher of Cult of Mac, and author of three books about technology culture: Inside Steve’s Brain, the New York Times bestseller about Steve Jobs; Cult of Mac; and Cult of iPod. Leander has written for Wired, MacWeek, Scientific American, and The Guardian in London. Follow Leander on Twitter @lkahney and Facebook.

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  • Allan

    “Expected” in a month.

  • http://dontlinkthis.net Miko Kawaii

    COMING in a month.

  • peter

    actually been in ny a few weeks ago, in a period of 2 weeks there were no iPhones to be found in any apple store, one expection of the Soho store. That had iPhones for 1 day, and ppl were lining up to get them from 9am (the 8 gigs sold out by 9.30, there were some 16 gigs still for grabs)

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  • http://tuaw.com Mike

    Leander, did you get Giz’ permission before republishing the photo? Just curious.

  • http://cultofmac.com Leander Kahney

    mike — no, i didn’t get permission to use the photo. i assume its ok to ‘borrow’ a photo in exchange for a link. giz and other blogs have borrowed plenty from us — CoM and wired. as long as there’s credit and a link, it’s ok.

  • http://www.jamesbarbour.org/ James

    All three Manhattan stores had not a single iPhone between them all week last week. AT&T had loads. Guys in the 5th Ave Apple Store didn’t give anything away on the arrival of the 3G version, but where there’s smoke …

    FWIW I eventually got mine through Craigslist – no 3G here anyway so what the heck …